Also Jaroslav suggested replacing the wiki-based questionnaire with a process of collecting questions and then doing an e-mail interview with each candidate to run on Fedora Magazine. This seems like an excellent idea to me!

Replying to [comment:1 mattdm]:

Also Jaroslav suggested replacing the wiki-based questionnaire with a process of collecting questions and then doing an e-mail interview with each candidate to run on Fedora Magazine. This seems like an excellent idea to me!

Agreed.

Replying to [ticket:14 mattdm]:

As part of the council proposal, we agreed to select the first two candidates by a special election, like so:

The initial elected representatives will be selected in a single election, with the candidate with the most votes selected for a full term (through the release of F23) and the runner-up for a half term (through the release of F22). As with the Fedora Board archive, we'll establish a history page and this paragraph will move to that page after the first election.

And now it's time to do it. :) I was talking to Jaroslav, and we propose a one month timeframe, with an initial announcement soon (monday?) and public discussion and time for the new idea to sink in widely, then a week for nominations, then a "campaign" week with interviews and town halls, followed by a one week voting period.

Hm. My only concern would be someone running for election that may be selected by one of the two committee seats we're having filled. Perhaps we should wait for those two people to be selected first?

Replying to [comment:3 jwboyer]:

Hm. My only concern would be someone running for election that may be selected by one of the two committee seats we're having filled. Perhaps we should wait for those two people to be selected first?

Sadly, that is very reasonable. I didn't want to put too much pressure on immediate selection of the other seats, especially the ambassador one where there are the scope issues we talked about (although I have confidence in FAmSCo to handle that it may take time), and therefore was kind of hopeful for an aligned one-month-overall timeframe.

I guess, though, it makes sense to start with the first part — talking about upcoming elections and what the positions mean — and wait to for the nomination period to start after they are seated.

Replying to [comment:4 mattdm]:

Replying to [comment:3 jwboyer]:

Hm. My only concern would be someone running for election that may be selected by one of the two committee seats we're having filled. Perhaps we should wait for those two people to be selected first?

Sadly, that is very reasonable. I didn't want to put too much pressure on immediate selection of the other seats, especially the ambassador one where there are the scope issues we talked about (although I have confidence in FAmSCo to handle that it may take time), and therefore was kind of hopeful for an aligned one-month-overall timeframe.

I guess, though, it makes sense to start with the first part — talking about upcoming elections and what the positions mean — and wait to for the nomination period to start after they are seated.

Yes, absolutely.

I agree with waiting for appointed members - that's probably the part we did not understand in email conversation with Matt. In past, we tried to do the same for Board - but for different purpose. One seat was appointed before elections and one seat after elections (so the same issue could happen). But the reason was that FPL had some way how to steer Board members and make sure it's balanced (for example if Red Hatter was elected, the second appointee was from community or other ways how to balance Board). This does not apply anymore.

On the other hand, elections process could take quite a while - so setting deadline for appointees as part of elections schedule would be desirable. And we can use this time to socialize Council a bit more in community to attract people to run for it :).

Yesterday FESCo selected me to be the Council Engineering Representative and ratified their process for future selections. That's one seat filled.

Is anyone aware of how the search for the Outreach Representative is going in FAMSCo?

Replying to [comment:7 jwboyer]:

Yesterday FESCo selected me to be the Council Engineering Representative and ratified their process for future selections. That's one seat filled.

Is anyone aware of how the search for the Outreach Representative is going in FAMSCo?

I know it's under discussion. It's being tracked at https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/371 (login required but any FAS account should have permissions). FAmSCo was looking at broadening the search/scope to other outreach areas like marketing.

From the board meeting, Christoph Wickert is the nominative choice of FAmSCo and is going to reach out to marketing, design, and etc., and a final decision by the next FAmSCo meeting on Nov 4th. We propose an election schedule for the at-large seats like this:

{{{
Starting now: socialize idea, get candidates interested
November 4-10: Nomination period open
November 11-17: "Campaign" period. Individual blog posts, etc. encouraged. Will also have an email
interview with all answers published simultaneously on the 17th.
November 18-25: Voting open (close at 23:59 UTC so we can announce results)
November 26th: new council live
}}}

Btw. do we want Townhalls? I'm more than happy to see "campaign" part with interviews etc., townhalls could be part of it but it can be a bit tight to make everything in one week. So we have to be very well coordinated, any help appreciated :). Otherwise it looks good.

The "standard" FESCo and FAmSCo elections will follow Council elections relatively soon but as we want to make Board to Council transition soon, it probably does not make sense to wait. But there's possibility the second elections will be in the shadow of Council elections. Just a reminder.

I think the consensus from the [http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/board/board.2014-10-13-17.00.log.html board meeting a couple of weeks ago] was that we'd try it without townhalls. We don't want availability for that to be a blocker for candidates.

We could use the Nov 17th board meeting slot as an informal, optional IRC meet-and-greet.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Council/Nominations are (hopefully) prepared for elections.

This happened. :)